I don’t get why folks want to insist on projecting that standard on how blender numbers its releases. Yes, that is the way it works in other projects. Yes, a lot of people feel that would be the most appropriate way to number releases. No, blender doesn’t seem to use those conventions for whatever reason, so treating it as a simple incremental increase to the number is appropriate here.
Whether they should change it, or keep it the same is another debate: